In wine, there’s truth.
PLINY THE ELDEROn a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Not a day without a line.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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No one is wise at all times.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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